Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans · 2026-06-29 · 5 min
In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I examine three very different approaches to turning breakthrough AI technology into real-world business transformation. Highlights 00:11 - The AI Deployment Wars involve Google Cloud, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Each has evolved from being almost lab-focused companies with tremendous AI models, and now the pace of innovation of these models is remarkable. The capabilities, power, is stunning, but what that leads to is a huge demand among customers now to not just slip in a piece of technology, but to change companies dramatically. 00:45 - So, that's why the focus here now is on these Deployment Wars. I want to take a look at the three different approaches that these companies are taking. How are they going to take this very cool technology and turn that into customer success at the point of deployment for these customers? There are different approaches here. Money's not the issue here. 01:45 - The challenge is, how do they set themselves up to be not just great creators of technology, but deployment enablers for some of the world's largest companies doing unbelievably complex projects and betting their futures on AI?
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